skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, there is a large portion of the MKB population which is engaging in consumerism as a hobby.

I do think ergo keyboards can help a lot when you have RSIs or other physical constraints, but I think 90+% of the people who are MKB enthusiasts could be just as productive interfacing with a computer using a $20 Microsoft OEM keyboard.

I use an Apple magic keyboard for work and I don’t think it really slows me down. I could maybe see if you are a writer and you are outputting thousands of lines a day a good keyboard could make a difference, but if you are writing that many lines of code you should be concerned that LLMs are going to take your job writing boilerplate.

Just give me two monitors, a stock install of Ubuntu, and any $20 keyboard and I can do anything.
What exactly is supposed to be inferred by this?

> Furthermore, in the last two years I experienced two layoffs. In both situations it was white males let go in favor of Indian and KZ foreigners
I read the readme, I read all the links. I didn't see a single image. Why are developers like this.
You can watch it here https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-we-ve-not-been-trained-for-this-...
Infographics for Climate Change 2024
You two are in a battle over aesthetics, it is a battle that neither of you can win.

There is something attractive about a new set of work gloves. They are fresh, clean, almost begging you to use them in a project.

There is something attractive about a set of work gloves that have curled to the shape of your hands and have been burnished by sap and sawdusts and oils: come on old friend, let's remake our previous magic.

There's something nice about a fleecy throw, but they are not as cozy as the quilts my wife made for my daughter, but defining that coziness will remain out of reach as far as my words go.

No one can be correct, here. It's just what appeals more or less to you.
More deregulation passed under Carter than Reagan.
Look like grep.
Slopify
It's basically a thin-client OS, it doesn't do even 0.1% of what Qubes does. If you dig into the documentation you will see an MSSQL template as its admin backend (yes, it's that bad) and each "application" backend is RDP, Citrix, or some functional analogue to such.

Total trash. Employee morale at absolute zero.
I was thinking longer-term history when those incentives have eroded. And of course these things are always easier to see in hindsight
And what do you think was the first language translation for the communist party of China? Definitely Russian. I bet we find the same pattern in the other affiliated communist parties.
I really wish IDEs would support showing images inline in code. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to include a nice diagram in a comment but I instead had to resort to describing the diagram with words, or a shitty ASCII art diagram.

There's a very long standing VSCode issue for this.

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/3220
Iceland is already in Schengen, it's a bit like Norway in that respect, without the benefit to it's currency that all the oil brings
Paris to Berlin is now about 8h. I thought it’d be shorter. I also think Paris to Milan is approximately the same time.
This isn't a bad thing.

Financially it's ruinous to buy disposables when you can pick up a simple cigar sized vape with rechargeable battery and replaceable coil/pod for the same price, then refill it over and over again.

The amount of lithium ending up on the road and in bins is silly. The tax on vaping is putting the price of everything up, so now is the time to buy an Xross Pro or something that lasts all day.

For adults (who don't need to conceal their habit) it makes a lot of sense to buy coils/pods in quantity and keep a spare in the car/handbag.

Also ... Can we stop vilifying this life-saving habit? Smoking kills, we all know it. Vaping is MUCH safer and yes, just as addictive. Nicotine isn't the killer ingredient in smoking, so encourage people to vape, don't demonize them for it.
"As an EU national, you're entitled to work — for an employer or as a self-employed person — in any EU country without needing a work permit."

ref: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/work/work-abroad/index....
Um, joining the EU is not the same as joining the Euro. They can keep doing this exact thing after joining the EU if they keep their currency just like a few others are doing.

No, this is mostly about fishing rights afaik. Britain also kept having issues on that front.
"Both sides" doesn't really correspond with reality though. She made a concentrated effort to reach out to people on both sides, including the Cheneys, of all people.
And on the seventh day, he rested.
> For his loss in 1980, I still blame Kennedy.

I still blame Carter for killing single-payer health care. Almost 50 years later, we're still stuffering from that. Consider the recent murder of the United executive, and the public glee over it. The public despises our current health care system.

Of course Obama had the chance to remedy the situation but instead chose to give government subsidies to the very health insurance companies that everyone hates.
A couple of questions/points about the article:

1. Figure #2 purports to show the difference in total compensation vs wages. The last date (July 1, 2021) entries for compensation is 206.32 and for wages is 117.63.

A. What are the units?
B. Are we meant to conclude that in July 2021, workers received like $0.95 worth of benefits for every $1 they received in wages? Really? I've worked some jobs with pretty cushy total-comp packages, but after the dot-com boom, salary has always dominated all other categories of compensation.

2. Apparently, the consumer price index has been rising much faster than the GDP deflator: Quote from the article: "Consumer prices, measured by the CPI, have multiplied by more than 10 from 1947 to 2021. For their part, general prices in the North American economy, measured by the GDP deflator, have multiplied by 6.4 between 1947 and 2020. The difference is huge."

The central thesis is that if we are comparing wages vs productivity, we should be using the same deflator for both, and, if you do, the gap largely disappears.

Is this really the correct thing to do? The GDP deflator measures how the prices of every good produced--from stealth bombers to datacenters to milk, have changed. But wage earners do not purchase stealth bombers or datacenters. They purchase things like milk. Why not deflate their wages with an index which measures the kinds of things which wage earners buy?

3. The article takes inspiration from an earlier paper by Marten Feldstein. Feldstein, when discussing this issue makes the statement:

"There are of course other questions for which using compensation deflated
by the CPI or some other consumer price index is appropriate, including measuring
changes in the standard of living of wage earners and in the incentive to supply
labor."

For sake of argument, let's grant to the author everything he explicitly is trying to demonstrate in his article. We would have to rephrase the description of the problem--instead of talking about how growth in wages are dramatically lagging growth in productivity, we could instead say that worker's standard of living is dramatically lagging growth in worker productivity.

But rephrasing the problem doesn't make it go away! Either way you phrase it, the benefits of higher worker productivity are not accruing to the workers.
Italy not only can close the outer borders, but Italy must and doesn't (doesn't work hard enough).

That's what Frontex is all about. Same in Lithuania - not only it can close outer borders, but it has a requirement to do so.

So unless being sovereign is about having borders open, this argument doesn't work.
> I lived in the Knoxville/Oak Ridge TN area at the time

Hey, so did I! ORHS class of '82. Maybe we met back in the day?
Carter deregulated more than Raygun. Raygun introduced more gun regulations than Carter.

Both parties are worse than the other on the issues they promise to be better on.

It's almost like it's a big club that you're not a member of.
every one talking about jujutsu. learning git from jujutsu more easy than using git directly. it is more convenient. I just want using it for my project in future.
I know this one aspiring painter. Shame he got rejected from the academy. Mhh, was there anything else?
President Carter was a good person. However. We lost control of the Panama Canal because of Carter which is a major blunder especially today.
The Onions announcement of his death: 48-Year-Old Rabbit Finally Finishes the Job[0]

0. https://theonion.com/48-year-old-rabbit-finally-finishes-the...
On The Stability of Four-Legged Tables (2006)
Don’t change your tack now. All that you said could have been said fifteen years ago.
I view both of them positively (unusual I suppose). Honestly compared to the poor presidents we’ve been getting in this century, the 20th makes me very jealous in retrospect.
Authentic channel is a channel typically uses digital signatures, or MACs, or something like the Dragonfly protocol used for example in WPA3. As you may know the padlock and alerts in browsers are exactly for that reason, to show that a channel is authentic. The client doesn't authenticate by default, we use passwords/API keys/oauth/etc for that. Though the client actually can, and some services use that.

> Second, it's very hard to imagine authorization on an open channel like radio, without any sort of encryption.

It's easy: you add digital signatures to sign plaintext packets/messages. And now you know they are authentic, and not generated by some random guy that bought a HackRF last week, and is now testing all firmwares that he can find.
I’ve seen the movie Dead Man. No way am I paying my own flight and lodging costs for a potential employer that has no accountability to me.
Nuclear waste is much like the national debt. Future generations will be dealing with it. And that's certainly the case with Hanford.
I spoke to someone who traveled there post COVID in 2022. They started they had to install a tracker app, perhaps COVID tracking? Perhaps I am misremembering something.
One more thing I would add is if we don't address the training and skill issue of Americans, that isn't a racial issue that impacts only those of European descent. Every immigrant that comes here and has children will have to deal with that for their kids. Folks from country X and country Y are going to find that their kids are in the same unfortunate situation as American kids of European or mostly European descent. They too are already find themselves displaced by immigrants (even from the country from which their parents hailed) for jobs and housing if we don't fix immigration ASAP.
> housing demand is insatiable in Flagstaff

As long as the Grand Canyon, Coconico National Forest, Meteor Crater, and Red Rock State Park remain major tourist destinations absolutely.

> Like all other American cities the planning code of Flagstaff virtually forbids construction of anything, so it's not as if they've tried to build on the margin and it didn't help.

Flagstaff and Coconico County changed their zoning code as part of the Flagstaff 2045 initiative [0].

Furthermore, much of the CDP land surrounding Flagstaff has been converted into housing - the Kachina Wetlands area, Flagstaff Ranch, Presidio Park, the area around Floxglenn Park, Pine Canyon, etc.

These are all recentish expansions (past 10 years) and there are further expansions that have been zoned by Coconico County.

Furthermore, within Flagstaff City, multi-unit housing is being developed now using the stick-frame format.

All these units are a significant expansion for a small regional town in the middle of nowhere (amazingly beautiful but nowhere nonetheless).

All these units are priced at the $400k and above range - which is unaffordable for service workers who tend to earn $14-20/hr and tend to commute significant distances.

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Fundamentally, zoning has been simplified but the costs of construction (labor, financing, and of course land) incentivize high value/high margin real estate development.

One of my former sparring buddies is MD track (hence no more time to spar) for Real Estate/Construction financing at one of the bulge brackets, and in our conversations, much of the deal flow over the past few years has been flowing towards infra construction because of better margins and significant subsidization by state, local, and federal governments.

Commercial and Residential Real Estate just cannot compete with the margins that come with building a fab for Intel or TSMC, as wages, margins, and RoI is much higher.

Zoning can help to a certain extent in some highly sought after markets, but in much of America, financing for residential construction just cannot compete with infra financing.

[0] - https://flagstaff-regional-plan-2045-flagstaff.hub.arcgis.co...
ABSTRACT

We prove that a perfect square table with four legs, placed on continuous irregular ground with a local slope of at most 14.4 degrees and later 35 degrees, can be put into equilibrium on the ground by a “rotation” of less than 90 degrees. We also discuss the case of non-square tables and make the conjecture that equilibrium can be found if the four feet lie on a circle.

https://youtu.be/UvsfGOUKx_c?si=tTrxlt1F_WgVrtA-
Notice I said as a systems programmer. A systems programmer is the one who would configure system settings (possibly for the whole lpar). Is IBM letting people change settings on the LPAR as part of the course?
The US has the best selection of beer varieties of any country and flying is cheaper in absolute dollars than in the 70s
Multi-touch support (at least on iOS) is a nice touch
> I kept my current title and only got a 3% pay increase.

I've been working for nearly 30 years now. This is pretty standard. Talk to your friends who dont work in tech a 3% raise is pretty good.
I'd bet $500 that richrichie knows that already and seeing it again still won't keep them from repeating the known lie. It's kind of part and parcel.
As a Melburnian and a PDP-11 bits collector, this is just fantastic information!

Do you have a blog or somewhere else where you share tidbits of information like this? Cause I sure would love to read that.
Eww, an unclosed parenthesis. Horrid! The Lisp gods will not be happy. Excuse me, HN people!
I recall my father once took my discarded factory made Rockport shoes out of the trash to have the soles repaired by a cobbler in China. From what my father told me, the cobbler claimed he had never seen such high quality shoes. My father thought he was doing me a favor. Unfortunately, I had several pairs of identical shoes in my closet prepared in advance for when the soles wore out.

If he had never seen such high quality shoes, I certainly do not expect him to be able to produce equal quality shoes even if he is able to make a better fit. However, they make enough sizes of shoes that you can approximate the right fit and actually getting the right fit is not significantly different. I have wide feet, which makes getting shoes that fit well difficult since the wide variety is not often shipped to stores and likely has limited production. That is why I had so many duplicates of the same shoe in my closet in the first place. Having found shoes that fit, I do not feel any need for a custom fit.

That said, a custom fit is a very different thing than a claim of being intrinsically better. If we go by what my father claimed the cobbler in China said, the factory made shoes are the better ones (or at least the Rockport ones I wear are).
If I live in a desert and 1000 children who have never seen the ocean tell me it’s ugly, should I believe them over the one older man who has actually seen it and says it’s beautiful?

First hand accounts are inherently more valuable than secondary ones. Failure to see that is frightening. Just because something gets echoed over and over doesn’t make it true.

And that’s exactly what I see. I see my generation saying how great Carter was while many of those in older generations than me seem to think otherwise. I’d like to say it’s strange, but actually it’s scary.
Are you also proposing to reject all the subsidies too? Or just leave the EU but keep getting investments, somehow?
Not to put Coolidge on a pedestal but I’m not sure I understand the vitriol historians have towards the man. Most of the hate is pointed at claiming he “set the stage for the Depression” but that’s a pretty bold assertion.

The Depression was a global affair, larger than one president’s actions, and most of his policies were fairly conventional for his day. He had left office over 6 months before the depression began (and over 2 years before the banking crises that caused most of the misery really kicked in). Since pretty much every leader (including FDR and Hitler) had to figure out how to solve the crises in office using unconventional policies (the then new-fangled Keynesian economic policy), it’s a bit unfair to blame the guy when he wasn’t even in power.
Seems less likely to happen than, well, what we have now. Russia has a lot of good mathematicians btw.
It wasn’t positive. It was a terrible situation. Hard to think of what Carter could have done differently. Ultimately, the hostages were freed through negotiations.
The two paragraphs seem contradictory to me...

The fist paragraph seems to say: "greed is not a good explanation", while the second seems to claim: "greed explains everything and we are all OK with it".
"If you're not with us you're against us" is the basest way to be politically conscious, not the only way.
No, the right to live and work is not related to Schengen.

Ireland isn't in Schengen, but a French person can move there tomorrow for work or study etc. They have to show a passport at border control, but otherwise face a very similar situation as they would moving to Germany (fill in some papers, get a local tax id etc).
When I need to make a decision (especially about software development), I ask it to ask me questions to inform the decision. I then ask it to present options and the trade-offs between them. I don’t always go with one of its ideas, but it helps me see what it is I really want my code to do and my design to feel like. It makes a decent sounding board when you’re working solo.

It’s also pretty good at proposing test cases and implementing tests for unit testing of simple functions and methods, and helps me be better about TDD.

It’s also pretty good at coming up with answers to common boilerplate tasks and setup. It is NOT good at implementing business logic — most interns I’ve worked with are better.
They are the same where it counts, at least in 2024. Starting multi trillion dollar wars with no exit plan, passing spending bills full of insane pork, borrowing $2T per year - those are widely "bipartisan" issues. On these issues nothing changes irrespective of who gets elected. What little (in monetary terms) quibbling does occur, occurs over the issues that do not immediately affect most people. That is by design - it's performative, to delineate the in-group from the outsiders for each party, and pit people against each other. It's a very effective strategy, which people eagerly embrace, not realizing that people who devised this strategy are robbing them (and their children/grandchildren, if any) blind.
The incremental cost of a pound of fuel is a rounding error in shipping. You might factor it in, but it'd be very far down the list of priorities.

Interestingly, cars have similar economics. Details vary quite a bit, but every 100lb (nearly two full tanks of gas for me) makes you 1% less efficient. It only really matters if you have driving habits that tend to burn that excess energy somewhere, like rolling in hot to a stop light and hitting your brakes rather than anticipating the light cycle and coasting in.
Yes, the Chaos Computer Club in Germany. 27-30 Dec (So currently ongoing).
Human Evolution News That Surprised Us in 2024
He's not joking. He's an immigrant himself. There is often the "pulling up the ladder" attitude from the ones who think they "deserved" their entry.
I mean, Greenland is always going to be a weird political exception. It has a population smaller than Vejle, which, unless you live in or near Denmark, you are highly unlikely to be able to point to on a map. Denmark itself has a population significantly smaller than London.
The democrats made a fundamental miscalculation in the late 90s that you can simply pander to brown people and they will turn out for you. The messaging is complex because you tell different audiences different things, and the Internet makes it complicated because conservative Hispanic Catholics don’t align with the platform.

In doing that, they ceded rural America, which was devastated by NAFTA and other Clinton era policies. Giant agribusiness makes money, but the prosperous dairy operators really need regulation at the federal level to thrive. I grew up in a town that was solid rural democrat… that was gutted like a fish. 30 operating dairy farms to 1, which is a vertically integrated farm/dairy that delivers to consumers directly. The feed stores, gone. Tractor dealer, gone. The best job in town is truck driving and it’s solid trumper land.

The modern conservative narrative is really simple, and is mostly hot air. Those chicken processing plants and farms in nowhereville that need a steady supply of cheap, dumb labor with no workers comp aren’t run by democrats. Bread & circus, until the crowd demands more.
Your source claimed no provable increase in potency. This refutes that.

Of course a higher dosage of a more potent drug will lead to wildly different and markedly increased effects... I think you have your argument wrapped in semantic reasoning rather than pharmacology.

Beyond this, do you admit your premise is flawed?
That you keep assuming I have fear is both incorrect and belittling. Please stop.
There was definitely a perception at the time that Carter wasn’t doing enough, but we can ask ourselves whether that perception was justified.
> once the going got tough, majority support evaporated

It's likely that majority support would have evaporated as soon as any leave deal was reached. No deal would have satisfied all the different reasons people voted leave.
It really depends on the company. I've interviewed 200+ people, I've never seen a cover letter.
Oh, that does help!!
The USA is entering a death spiral, you fool. Some lunatic fascist techbro openly payed his way to being the de-facto president. Get ready for an unprecedented face-fucking.
Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/Bgw394ZKsis?si=q3OuzOBCsnq5nyXE
NL fishing fleet has been modernized twice over. First cleaner engines, then electric pulse fishing (not nearly as bad as dragnet fishing).

French fishers don’t want to make the investments into their fleet, so they harassed French politicians until those spiked the pulse fishing research permits. This had the by-effect of (nearly) bankrupting the Dutch fishing fleet.

So no, fishing industry fights are not just an UK thing.
Communicating with Slip Boxes: An Empirical Account by Niklas Luhmann
The public despises our current health care system.

if this is true, “the public” has a very funny way of showing that. you just mention a different health care system to 1/2 of this country and see where that takes you (will guess you will hear socialism during those rants…) :)
The OP is correct. In the real world, bad faith NIMBYs will reject any and all buildings as ‘not beautiful enough’. The reason is that they really don’t want new construction period. It’s not about beauty. In other words, you’re the one living in the fantasy world if you think we can just sit down, decide on what is beautiful, and then build, build, build. This will never happen. Zoning must be majorly reformed, and if you think it will be easier to reform zoning if we incorporate aesthetic standards, you are wrong. People simply don’t want new buildings in their neighborhood.